Why would you trust a coder with only one hack here and no proven work elsewere? Personally, if I was to ever employ somebody for custom work I would only accept either an advanced/master coder or somebody that has a lot of previous satisfied clients like eg cinq. Insane-topics has neither of these... You can't even prove that he has the coding abilities to accomplish such a thing!

This is the email I got from him Feb 2, 2006 at 5PM

Well Michelle, My project was not $800 as mike's was, but I have enlisted the help of Logician and someone else here with no hitches, so unfortunately, I was trusting him based on a community.

I went with Cinq over some other hackers for a paid job awhile back for that exact reason, and he was flawless.

Yeah, that's why I mentioned him, cause I have heard a lot of good things about him :)

After HE finally contacted me again last night, he said that he would have my CMS ready for testing on my dev site when I awoke. I know that was not going to happen becuase I had not given him the access to that site. First thing this morning, I sent him the login and passwords that he needed to show me what he has. I sent him 3 emails today and guess what, NOTHING

Now that there is more proof than ever with cleck673 also showing that this guy is a fraud, please ALL MEMBERS OF THE VBULLETIN COMMUNITY THAT NEED PRIVATE WORK DONE

Actually, no. I'm too busy at the moment to take on any new clients.

Always check out bidding coders before hiring though. Ask for references, links to work, search here looking for comments about their work. If in doubt, don't hire them.

I can't remember which one of my past clients exactly,but i had to help one out after this same mentioned member took his money and never got back to him again. So you folks aren't the first,most definitely. Real sad that some resort to this....

For the record,I always request for 50% partial payment in the form of a deposit upfront and i make it very clear to the client that if he/she is not comfortable with it,feel free to look for other developers.All my clients can atest to this.

And thanks for the vote of confidence to the few who brought up my name. A pity I didnt reply to your Service Request sooner, Mike.:(

Unless he has disappeared or become another person, LOGICIAN is a stand up guy as well. I can attest to CINQ, I have hear nothing but good.

Yeah but you asking for money upfront with you history is fine but this guy is a joke.... Can we say ban?

If it really is that "Insanctus" person as mentioned earlier, and if I remember correctly.. he has been banned.

A couple of times?

If it is Insanctus yet again, what a joke.. I feel sorry for the people who get suckered into these things.. I never ask for money until after my job is finished.

It sucks that way, but atleast I do get paid, and the client ends up happy too.

Getting paid up front is just kind of.. asking for this to happen, IMO. He doesn't have the drive and motivation to work for $400 when he just got $400 for doing absolutely nothing..

If he had to work for the full $800, then I would imagine the job would have been done by now.